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I agree that this bill is hardly the ultimate solution, but in this problem there isn't a simple answer: what we really need and don't have is a responsible hard headed political process that functions to get us through this. Toyota, for example opposes the current bill and believes it will seriously damage their business. If that's true, how much will it damage one of our biggest and most important industries: our auto industry? Leftists and environmentalists shouldn't scoff at this concern: these are industrial workers at risk, the people they should care about. We have made this transportation nightmare with cheap gas, kept cheap by force of arms and CIA coups around the world for decades: we can't turn that on a dime. The incentives proposal has merit: among other things it would permit businesses, workers and farmers who need the large trucks to keep having them.What are the biggest sources of greenhouse gas? Cheap politics won't cut it here, hard slogging governance is what we need and sensible people to get that done.Such people are probably mostly Democrats: but we sure as hell need to figure out who they are and get them in charge.
